DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z November 5, 2019
SMOKE:
New Mexico/Texas/Oklahoma...
The west-east elongated swath of thin to locally moderately dense leftover
smoke likely originating from the fires in south central Utah spread
quickly to the east across northern New Mexico, northwestern Texas,
and western and central Oklahoma where it appeared to be dissipating
just prior to sunset.
Arizona/New Mexico...
A cluster of fires in east central Arizona was responsible for an area of
mostly thin density smoke which moved to the east and across the border
into west central New Mexico. Moderately dense to locally thick smoke
was seen closer to a couple of the fires.
Utah...
Several fires in south central Utah were producing smoke of varying
density which moved off to the southeast during the afternoon nearly
reaching the southern Utah-northern Arizona border.
North Central California...
A persistent fire in western Tehama County of northern California was
emitting a moderately dense to thick smoke plume which fanned out and
gradually thinned out as it moved to the south in the general direction
of the Oakland-San Francisco metro areas. A batch of what are believed to
be mainly agricultural fires in the Sacramento Valley north of Sacramento
produced many thin to very locally moderately dense smoke plumes with
some of them merging to form a larger patch of thin density smoke in
that region.
South Central and Southeastern U.S...
Numerous seasonal type fires were scattered around portions of the
South Central and Southeastern U.S. with some visible smoke. Areas of
cloud cover inhibited smoke detection from satellite imagery in a few
locations within that region.
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THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF
SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED
FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE.
TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE
ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE
AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE
FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:
JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS: ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)
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SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov